DIP-105

graph

Following the convention of DIP-102, a new wordType will be introduced: graph.

Background:

In DCoSL, data is represented as a graph, with nodes and edges. DIP-100 and DIP-103 provides conventions for nodes and edges, respectively. In this DIP, we provide conventions for representation of the graph itself.

Declaration

See here.

Properties

Under graphData, three properties are introduced:

• nodes: an array of words, identified by one or more unique identifiers, such as slug
• relationships: an arry of objects, each one of which describes a relationship between two nodes
• graphs: a list of other graphs which may be imported

Example:

{
  "wordData": {
    "wordTypes": ["relationship"],
  },
  "graphData": {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "slug": "foo"
      },
      {
        "slug": "bar"
      },
    ],
    "relationships": [
      {
        "nodeFrom": {
          "slug": "foo"
        },
        "relationshipType": {
          "slug": "subsetOf"
        },
        "nodeTo": {
          "slug": "bar"
        },
      }
    ],
    "graphs": []
  },
  ...
}